Yoo Hoo, Seattle Times and OSPI - See You in the New Year
I called and left a message for two different people at OSPI today to get a comment about OSPI signing an agreement with the Seattle Times for student and teacher data (it was November 13, 2013 to be exact). No one called back. I called and talked to Jim Simon, who is the managing editor at the Times. He's very busy, says that KUOW got it wrong on the personally identifiable student or staff-related data and they were preparing a statement. That was about 10 am this morning and yet, the Times remains silent, both in sending anything out via e-mail or at their newspaper. ( Update: Mr. Simon phoned me late Friday afternoon. He told me that they had talked to KUOW about the inaccuracy of their story in saying that personally identifiable information would be given to the Times via the agreement with OSPI. He said it was a "significant" update. I told him that was his view because, while the update is true, it does not mean that students could not b...